The cheapest thrill ever to run up The Liberal Media's collective leg was when Their Chøsen Øne™ came on TV and promisedlied that "I can no more disown (the pastor of my church Jeremiah 'God D*** America!' Wright) than I can disown the black community."

Why is the Los Angeles Times sitting on a videotape of the 2003 farewell bash in Chicago at which Barack Obama lavished praise on the guest of honor, Rashid Khalidi — former mouthpiece for master terrorist Yasser Arafat?

At the time Khalidi, a PLO adviser turned University of Chicago professor, was headed east to Columbia. There he would take over the University's Middle East-studies program (which he has since maintained as a bubbling cauldron of anti-Semitism) and assume the professorship endowed in honor of Edward Sayyid, another notorious terror apologist.

The party featured encomiums by many of Khalidi's allies, colleagues, and friends, including Barack Obama, then an Illinois state senator, and Bill Ayers, the terrorist turned education professor. It was sponsored by the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), which had been founded by Khalidi and his wife, Mona, formerly a top English translator for Arafat's press agency.

Is there just a teeny-weenie chance that this was an evening of Israel-bashing Obama would find very difficult to explain? Could it be that the Times, a pillar of the Obamedia, is covering for its guy?

Gateway Pundit reports that the Times has the videotape but is suppressing it.

Back in April, the Times published a gentle story about the fete. Reporter Peter Wallsten avoided, for example, any mention of the inconvenient fact that the revelers included Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, Ayers's wife and fellow Weatherman terrorist. These self-professed revolutionary Leftists are friendly with both Obama and Khalidi — indeed, researcher Stanley Kurtz has noted that Ayers and Khalidi were "best friends." (And — small world! — it turns out that the Obamas are extremely close to the Khalidis, who have reportedly babysat the Obama children.)

Nor did the Times report the party was thrown by AAAN. Wallsten does tell us that the AAAN received grants from the Leftist Woods Fund when Obama was on its board — but, besides understating the amount (it was $75,000, not $40,000), the Times mentions neither that Ayers was also on the Woods board at the time nor that AAAN is rabidly anti-Israel. (Though the organization regards Israel as illegitimate and has sought to justify Palestinian terrorism, Wallsten describes the AAAN as "a social service group.")

Perhaps even more inconveniently, the Times also let slip that it had obtained a videotape of the party.

When the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate back in January of 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at an all-time high of 12,400 and gas prices hovered around $2.15 per gallon. The Republican-led Congress of the previous 4-years had left a strong economy in the hands of Socialist Democrats.

Fast-forward two years, under Democrat-controlled Congress. Just last week the Dow Jones hit a 5-year low of 10,485 and gas prices loomed near $4 dollars a gallon.

These harmful economic events all took place during a Democrat controlled Congress in Washington, led by Harry Reid and Nancy Pilosi [and the do-nothing (besides running to get even more personal power) Barack Hussein Obama].

This is an infomercial we've been forced to watch over and over the last two years every time we filled up our cars or applied for any loans.

No infomercial ever made could be more disturbing than this Phoniest Show on Earth which The Liberal Media and Their Chøsen Øne™ have painstakingly scripted and been continuously airing throughout the 35,000-plus half hours between February 10, 2007 and today.

In 1932, Herbert Hoover pushed through a tax increase in the heart of the depression on "rich" taxpayers, in the "Economic Recovery Act" of that year. At that time the median household income was $1,000 annually. Like Obama's economics plan, Hoover's tax increase applied to only the top brackets making more than $4,000 per year, or roughly 4x the median income. This would be equivalent today to an Obama's tax increase affecting only households making $200,000 and above, or 4x the national median.

What happened then is now something that all economists agree upon. The increase was a disaster that served to deepen the depression into a new phase of despair. The few companies that were making money laid off even more workers. Unemployment rose. Incomes fell. The economic disaster was deepened and prolonged.

Somebody should have told Obama before he aired an ill-fated infomercial/commercial that proposes throwing oil on fire. You do not raise aggregate taxes during a recession, and then call it a tax decrease for 95% of Americans. Obama's proposed tax decrease to lower income Americans does nobody any good when they are laid off from work.

Or we finally change that same old channel and select for us and our country a new and far better and more reasonable and hopeful one, with programs that make sense and work for every American and always show experienced and tested people doing exactly the jobs we hire and expect them to do, completing only the tasks we want and entrust them to complete, and believing at all times that, yes, We their Number One Bosses can and will most unfailingly demonstrate the best innate ability and personal resourcefulness and enough of a work ethic and self-respect and love of freedom for doing and completing all the other jobs and tasks everyplace else in our God's Blessed America — the Beautiful Land of the Freest and Home of the Bravest People Ever — of, by, and for ourselves.

We don't need a stinking Øbamericial to inform any of us true lovers of liberty at all about any portion of that.